Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickmanwas an English actor and director known for playing a variety of roles on stage and screen. Rickman trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in modern and classical theatre productions. His first big television part came in 1982, but his big break was as the Vicomte de Valmont in the stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, for which he was nominated...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth21 February 1946
CityLondon, England
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.
I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.